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@@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW: developers choose to disable these features on build machines to maximize performance. +20070612: + The IPv4 multicast socket code has been considerably modified, and + moved to the file sys/netinet/in_mcast.c. Initial support for the + RFC 3678 Source-Specific Multicast Socket API has been added to + the IPv4 network stack. + + Strict multicast and broadcast reception is now the default for + UDP/IPv4 sockets; the net.inet.udp.strict_mcast_mship sysctl variable + has now been removed. + + The RFC 1724 hack for interface selection has been removed; the use + of the Linux-derived ip_mreqn structure with IP_MULTICAST_IF has + been added to replace it. Consumers such as routed will soon be + updated to reflect this. + + These changes affect users who are running routed(8) or rdisc(8) + from the FreeBSD base system on point-to-point or unnumbered + interfaces. + 20070610: The net80211 layer has changed significantly and all wireless drivers that depend on it need to be recompiled. Further these |
